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Reminder Today’s Workshop - Help Guide UC San Diego Research

The first two Research Initiative Workshops have been terrific! This is your reminder for TODAY’S Workshop:

ENRICHING HUMAN LIFE AND HEALTH
Thursday, February 6th, 2:30 to 6:00 pm
Beyster Auditorium at Rady School of Management (e.g., improve health and lives of individuals; develop medical, engineering, social and educational solutions to serve society; understand human behavior, culture and health through basic, medical, and social sciences, history, and arts; evaluate diverse impacts of technology)

AGENDA
Moderator: Susan Taylor – Health Sciences Research: Technology Systems Perspective
2:35 – 2:45 pm: Geert Schmid-Schoenbein “Engineering in Clinical Medicine”
2:45 – 2:55 pm: Amarnath Gupta “Social Life Networks - Connecting People to Resources”
2:55 – 3:05 pm: Karen Messer “Biostatistics: Data Science in the service of Human Health”
3:05 – 3:15 pm: Kumar Sharma “Combined Health Sciences and Engineering Metabolomic Programs”
3:15 – 3:30 pm Group Discussion and Q/A

Moderator: Shu Chien – Enhancement of Public Health through Technology
3:30 – 3:40 pm: Ramesh Rao “Cognitive Healthcare: From Android
Infrastructure to Optimal Information Acquisition”
3:40 – 3:50 pm: Steffanie Strathdee “Developing and Scaling Up
Innovative Technologies to Impact Global Health”
3:50 – 4:00 pm: Larry Smarr “The UCSD Big Data Freeway System”
4:00 – 4:10 pm: Kelly Frazer “Fostering collaborative research utilizing omic technology platforms to improve human health” 4:10 – 4:25 pm: Group Discussion and Q/A

Moderator: Susan Tapert – Improving Human Health
4:45 – 4:55 pm: Sharon Reed “Emerging Infections and Border Health”
4:55 – 5:05 pm: Patricia Rincon “Dance and Health”
5:05 – 5:15 pm: Andrew Baird “Avatars of Human Disease: Personalized Modeling for Personalized Medicine”
5:15 – 5:25 pm: Mike Gilson “Drug Discovery Innovation”
5:25 – 5:40 pm: Group Discussion/Q &A

Details of the Agendas for all four Workshops are posted at http://researchinitiatives.ucsd.edu/

As stated in the original announcement:
A key outcome of the campus strategic planning effort is the identification of four broad themes that provide opportunities for interdisciplinary research and education to complement the outstanding individual efforts which will continue to be campus priorities. The themes provide opportunities to leverage the remarkable research on our campus to address several of society's most pressing challenges. We are hosting workshops to enable broad participation in the development of these areas and identify new collaborative opportunities.

We look forward to seeing you at today’s Workshop, and next Tuesday’s as well.

Sandra A. Brown Vice Chancellor for Research Kit Pogliano Chair UC San Diego Division, Academic Senate

The remaining Workshop:

UNDERSTANDING CULTURES AND ADDRESSING DISPARITIES IN SOCIAL JUSTICE, ACCESS EQUITY AND INCLUSION
Tuesday, February 11th, 2:00 to 5:30 (note slightly different time)
Faculty Club Atkinson Pavilion

(e.g., understand diverse human cultures, organizations, behaviors and modes of self-expression; identify the origins of and develop solutions to inequities in access to health, education, political enfranchisement and financial resources; understand how cultural, historical and organizational context impacts individual and group decisions; develop policy and ethical guidelines to ensure that rapid globalization and technological advances achieve their potential for improving quality of life, access to opportunities and promoting social mobility)